We performed a comparison between Observer Apex and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Network visibility is the most valuable feature."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"The SolarWinds NPM framework, upon which most of their flagship products are built, empowers a wide variety of admins and users to quickly find value in their installed products."
"It covers everything from end to end, from the standpoint of endpoint machines and the routers and switches. The switch port also comes there."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The pricing and AI can be improved."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
"The SolarWinds notification and alerting configuration could be simplified as it would be easier to find if it was within the NPM web application instead of in a separate client application."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
Observer Apex is ranked 93rd in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Observer Apex is rated 0.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Observer Apex writes "Has good network visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Observer Apex is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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